Sentences with phrase «family as a young girl»

Dr. Buch, originally from Mumbai, India, became a Cincinnati resident with her family as a young girl.

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The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

Their daughter, Sandra Roel, started working at the family business as a young girl.

Founder Rana Lustyan, Edoughble CEO & head chef, and mother of two young girls brings her Le Cordon Bleú training and pastry chef experience at award - winning restaurants such as Spago in Los Angeles and Boulevard in San Francisco as well as her deep understanding of what customers and family members crave for fun - loving desserts into Edoughble.

A Hawaii Mommy Blogger since 2006 sharing product reviews, giveaways, local family friendly events, parenting resources, and her daily life as she raises 3 young girls in paradise.

A member of Mathletes, Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and community charity fundraising organization Athletes2Athletes, Adrianna also works as a dietary aid for James G. Johnson / Hilltop Nursing Home and volunteered for «Kicking it with Kaylee,» a fundraiser to help pay for the medical expenses of a young girl fighting Stage 3 Cancer.

As the founder of Blondie Girl Productions, Ashley is also the executive producer of the sitcom Young & Hungry on ABC Family.

There was a significant link between amount of alcohol consumption and further increased risk of getting benign breast disease as young women in adolescent girls having a family history of breast cancer.

I developed this passion as a young girl after seeing a family member battle depression (discussed with Miss to Mrs.).

We rarely go to the mall as a family, but Nana had the two youngest girls so everything felt easy with just our four oldest along.

If «The Breadwinner» were a live - action film, it would be virtually unbearable to watch, but as animation, it's not only possible, but somehow inspiring to immerse oneself in this pared - down adaptation of Deborah Ellis» well - regarded young - adult novel, about an 11 - year - old girl who must step up and care for her family after the Taliban raids her home and arrests her father (hence the title).

Pixar's Inside Out goes inside the head of Riley — a young girl whose family moves from the Midwest when her father gets a new job in San Francisco — as we meet her emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Shoplifters is about a small - time thief who takes a young girl home to his family; after seeing scars from abuse, they decide to keep her and raise her as their own.

That way, he can try to break through without having to be introduced as Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend, and Harvey doesn't have to complain about his star actress being weighed down by a young English dude that nobody knows; he'd rather present her to those old ass Academy voters as the plucky, unspoiled American girl not unlike their college - aged granddaughters who sass them when they come home for family holidays.

The Breadwinner is the story of Parvana, a young girl living under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy and become the breadwinner of the family when her father is unfairly imprisoned for being an intellectual.

SYNOPSIS: In ancient Japan, a young girl watches as her entire family are butchered by a master swordsman and his gang.

Breakout star Anya Taylor - Joy leads this dark 1630s tale as a teenage girl who finds her younger siblings and Puritan parents — played with devastating brilliance by Ralph Ineson («Guardians of the Galaxy») and Kate Dickie («Game of Thrones»)-- pitted against her after the family's youngest child goes missing at the edge of the wilderness.

The film sees rising Irish actor Domnhall Gleeson as a young man who finds the males in his family have the ability to travel through time, and much like his father (Bill Nighy) before him, he's eager to use it to his advantage — wooing the girl of his dreams (Rachael McAdams).

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of noncorfomist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stil the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

He accuses the innocent looking young girl of killing and disemboweling the family's farm animals and presents her bloody clothes as evidence of her deeds.

«When I was young, Parvana, I knew what peace felt like...» GKids has debuted the full - length theatrical trailer for an animated film titled The Breadwinner, set in the heart of Afghanistan telling the story of a girl who dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family.

«The Glass Castle» Release Date: TBD Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson and Max Greenfield Synopsis: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Based on two autobiographies by Le Ly Hayslip, the young Vietnamese girl (Hiep Thi Le) lives, what is depicted, as an idyllic childhood, working the wheat fields with her family.

When Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), an innocent young teen girl, is abducted and killed by a well camouflaged serial killer named George Harvey (Stanley Tucci), the rest of her family is strained and stressed to new levels as they deal with the unsolved mystery and loss of a child.

This female - directed, female - driven film adapted from Deborah Ellis» novel tells of a young girl in a Taliban - controlled Afghanistan, who is forced to disguise herself as a boy to provide for her family and spring her father from prison.

The siblings form a surrogate family for a streetwise young black girl (Simone Baker) just as the Rodney King verdict sets off the L.A. riots, turning the city into racially charged chaos.

A young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family in this Oscar - nominated animated drama based on the best - selling novel....

SYNOPSIS (via iMDB): A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

While I don't think that many of the young men I've encountered would «bite the usherette's leg in the dark» or «rub a pot roast all over his chest» during a family dinner (let alone kill a girl at the junior prom only to «dig up her body and make a cage with her bones») I do think - as the astonishing popularity of the book Raising Cain demonstrates — that we need to do a better job in terms of dealing with the free - floating and widespread anger felt by the males in our culture.

Harnessing the potential of young girls is a stated goal of the MDGs, as helping empower women brightens the future of not only themselves but also their families, communities and countries.

Young girls, virtually children, are lured with promises of proper jobs as nannies, au pairs, and maids to work for wealthy European families.

Karen Wunderman's first book Winterkill is a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl growing up and coming to terms with her father's past which threatens to not only destroy her father but her family as well.

It would be more than three decades before the mystery of Marcia's disappearance was finally solved, and during that time, the case took a toll not only on the little girl's family and on several young men in the neighborhood who were falsely suspected of involvement in the crime — but, more broadly, on the city as whole.

On her family vacation from Chicago to Mexico City, Celaya («Lala») Reyes begins her journey from girl to young adult as she weaves together wild, beautiful, cruel, and tender stories of ancestors and family members and especially her connections with her papa and the Awful Grandmother.

From a half - Shawnee Indian's bold choice to escape an abusive home only to find herself with a man who will one day try to kill her, to a brave young girl's determination to protect her younger sister as methamphetamine ravages their family, the characters in this remarkable novel have deep connections to the land, and a resilience that only the place they call home could create.

In The Underground Girls of Kabul, award - winning journalist Jenny Nordberg investigates a practice she discovered while pursuing a story in Afghanistan: that of parents dressing their young daughters as boys and allowing them to fill the role of sons for their families.

Set in 1852, the third in the Birchbark House series finds Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl, now 12, and her family facing serious challenges as they move westward from land the U.S. government has claimed.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

With her sketchbook and camera in hand, a young girl assembles a visual mosaic of what starts as an all - too - familiar disappointing family vacation to Dad's childhood home but ends as a fun - filled romp with relatives.

Sketchbook and camera in hand, a young girl assembles a visual mosaic of what starts as an all - too - familiar disappointing family vacation to Dad's childhood home but ends as a fun - filled romp with relatives.

Canada's coming - of - age is told through the eyes of a young girl born into Toronto's privileged Family Compact ruling class but having to deal with dramatic change in her family and her own heart as she learns about death and loyalty andFamily Compact ruling class but having to deal with dramatic change in her family and her own heart as she learns about death and loyalty andfamily and her own heart as she learns about death and loyalty and love.

As a river twists and turns along its banks, these two young girls named after Scottish rivers, Annan and Cree, have met the twists and turns of life making their way to the Col. Potter family.

There are teenagers who perfectly fit the stereotypical image that the media loves so much of comic - book fans, little kids who love anime, young boys and girls out with their confused parents, cosplaying parents out with their confused children, entire families dressed up as the cast of Firefly or as Star Wars characters,, bemused grandparents being lead around with a smile on their face that suggests while they are a little baffled by the entire thing they're having a good time, middle - aged men and women who look like they've just come straight from work and enjoy a good comic and every other type of human in - between.

Starting as a young girl whose family was attacked and no memory as to how or why, you are given a sword by a mysterious entity and you begin the search for your family.

Even as a young girl working on her family's farm in California, she'd dangle her feet from the back of the horse - drawn equipment to draw shapes in the sand with her toes.

Girls married young have larger families, increasing population growth as well as making it more difficult for their families to escape poverty.

The family mourns the death of the young girl, who by age 12 had already established herself as an environmentalist winning the top prize for her reusable pizza box invention at the Invention Convention in Storrs, Connecticut.

By explaining that being a girl and being the eldest in the family was a special role enabled her to carve out a position in the family where she felt much less threatened by her brother and his needs as the youngest.

The film attempts to fairly depict and grapple with moral dilemmas and how various systems and levels of authority engage with the truth; leaders must decide (and follow protocols) around whether or not to destroy a compound containing two suicide bombers preparing to attack (as well as 3 of the top 5 most wanted terrorists), at the expense of killing innocent bystanders and civilians, which include a young girl selling food for her family.